Kiser, Walter (1902-1980) Additional drawings, Undated
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Kiser, Walter H., 1902-1980
Title: Additional drawings, undated.
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 102 items (1 box).
Location Number: Mss. A K61a
Scope and Content Note
Pen and ink drawings of houses in Kentucky. Drawings are arranged alphabetically by house name.
See also:
Walter H. Kiser Miscellaneous Papers (Call Number Mss. C K).
Walter H. Kiser Drawings, Undated (Call Number Mss. A K61)
Biographical Note
Kiser was an artist from New Albany, Indiana, who specialized in sketches of historic homes.
Sketch List
| City | House / Building / Doorway | Notes |
| Hawesville | Adams Homestead | |
| Wheatley | Alexander Home | L. P. Alexander |
| Millersburg | Althrop | McKee Home |
| Louisville | Anderson Home | Mary Anderson, 75 E. Gray St. (now 225 E. Gray) |
| Brandenburg | Atwill Homestead | Joseph Atwill |
| Springfield | Bates Place | Perry R. Bates (back reads near Bedford, Original list reads Springfield.) |
| Bardstown | Beall Home “Villa Lawn” | Walter Beall |
| Hawesville | Beauchamp Place | Robert Beauchamp |
| Bagdad | Blades Homestead | |
| Smithland | Brandstetter Place | |
| Louisville | Breckinridge Estate, “Kentwood” | Henry B. Breckinridge, located in St. Matthews |
| Elizabethtown | Brown-Pusey Home | |
| Brandenburg | Buckner Home | Col. Robert Buckner |
| Smithfield | Callaway Home, “Highlands” | |
| Shelbyville | Casey Home | (A. O. Stanley), Third and Washington Streets |
| Chaplin | Chaplin River Covered Bridge | |
| Big Spring | Clarkson Place (The Old Clarkson Place) | built 1851 |
| Marion | Crittenden County Courthouse | |
| Frankfort | Crittenden Home | John B. Crittenden |
| Bagdad | Crockett House | |
| Big Spring | Crutcher Place | |
| Elizabethtown | Crutcher Homestead | “Old Crutcher Homestead” |
| Carrollton | Darling Place | |
| Shelbyville | Doolan Homestead | |
| Bardstown | Doom Place “Culpepper” | |
| Louisville | Doup-Briscoe Place | 2900 Bardstown Road |
| Louisville | Duck Spring | Mr. and Mrs. Ludlow Clark |
| Louisville | Duckwald House | 3801 Northwestern Parkway |
| Lyndon | Duncan Home | Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Duncan |
| Louisville | Durrett Homestead (“Newstead”) | Preston Street Road |
| Bloomfield | Durrett Place | Southeast corner of Main and Perry Streets |
| Bardstown | Edelen Home, “The Sunken Garden” | Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Edelen |
| Louisville | Edison House | Lodging House of Thomas A. Edison |
| Ghent | Ellis House | 2 copies (1 pencil and 1 ink) |
| Carrollton | Elston Home | Bland Ballard Elston |
| Elizabethtown | Eskridge House | |
| Milton | Fearn Homestead | George Fearn |
| Louisville | First Unitarian Church | 4th and York Streets |
| Cloverport | Fisher Homestead | |
| Owenton | Ford Home | Built by Frank Ford in 1870. |
| Eminence | Giltner Home | R. R. Giltner |
| Bloomfield | Glasscock Home, “Spring Crest” | Dr. Micajah Glasscock |
| Ghent | Grass Hills | |
| New Castle | Graves Home | William J. Graves |
| Louisville | Grayson Homestead | 432 S. 6th Street |
| Ghent | Harris Home | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Harris |
| Elizabethtown | Haycraft Inn | built by Coleman Lewis about 1814 |
| Elizabethtown | Helm’s Home | Major Benjamin Helm |
| Henderson | Henderson County Court House | |
| Goshen | Henshaw Farm | |
| Smithland | Hibbs-Presnell Place | |
| Lakeland | Hite Home | Mr. Jacob Hite |
| Carrollton | Hoagland House, “Walnut Grove” | Major M. T. Hoagland |
| Magnolia | Holderman Homestead | Jacob Holderman |
| Lexington | Hopemont, Morgan Home | |
| Louisville | Huntsinger Place | 2 copies (both pencil) |
| Morganfield | Huston Homestead | |
| Louisville | Jefferson County Courthouse | |
| Westport | Jennings Place | Thomas W. Jennings |
| Louisville | Kentucky School for the Blind | Frankfort Ave. |
| Eminence | Kephart Homestead | Tom Kephart |
| Bardstown | Lewis Homestead | General Joseph Lewis |
| Louisville | Lewis-Swindler Homestead | |
| Greensburg | Lisle-Perry Place | |
| Louisville | Louisville and Portland Canal | |
| Louisville | Louisville Board of Education Building | 8th and Chestnut Street |
| Morganfield | McCoughtry Homestead | built by William McCoughtry, ca. 1820-1829 |
| Louisville | McFarland Home | 3329 Rudd Ave. |
| Hardinsburg | Meador, Old, Homestead | |
| Bloomfield | Minor, Old, Home | Major Spence Minor |
| Greensburg | Montgomery Mill | |
| Lexington | Mount Hope | Gratz Home |
| Owenton | Natlee Covered Bridge | |
| Owenton | Owen County Court House | |
| Bedford | Peak-Mosley Homestead | |
| Hawesville | Power’s Home | Col. L. S. Power |
| Bedford | Preston Home, “Norfolk” | built by Mrs. Mary Howard Wickliffe Preston in 1853 |
| New Castle | Pryor Homestead | |
| Brandenburg | Pusey & Coleman Mill | |
| Columbia | Reed House | |
| Louisville | Scene on East Jefferson Street | |
| Louisville | Scene on Fifth Street | Looking south from main Street. The large building in the foreground is the Kentucky Home Life Building, formerly the Inter-Southern. The Cathedral of the Assumption spire in background. |
| Louisville | Scene on First Street | Houses east side of First Street, just south of Liberty. |
| Morganfield | Sellers House | |
| Shelbyville | Shelbyville Grade School | Washington Street |
| Goshen | Snowden, Francis Homestead | later became the Green Field Country Club |
| Louisville | St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church | 234 W. Market |
| Louisville | St. Louis Bertrand Church | |
| Owenton | Staiar Place, “Highfield” | |
| Bardstown | Sweets Place, “Elmwald” | Mr. Mike Sweets |
| Ghent | Tandy House | James Bledsoe Tandy |
| Ballardsville | Taylor Home, “Spring Hill” | William Berry Taylor |
| Columbia | Trabue Place | |
| Louisville | Tucker Home, “Wild Acres” | Tucker Station Road |
| Louisville | Veach Home, “Indian Hills” | Alexander Veach, 2 copies (1 pencil and 1 ink) |
| Simpsonville | Walters Place | |
| Bardstown | Wickland mansion | Gov. Wickliffe |
| Bloomfield | Wilkinson, John Wesley Place | |
| Louisville | Workhouse | Lexington Road |
| Buechel | Yann, William Place | |
| Simpsonville | Ye Old Stone Inn | |
| Smithland | Zanone Home |